About the book: 2003 / Here is ALTERNATIVE FICTION!!! Spicy. Paradoxical. Funny. Bitter. Forcing readers to admire - and be indignant, argue - and discuss what they read. Fiction that will not leave ANYONE indifferent! Ian Macdonald. A true “star” of British science fiction today - and... a writer known to domestic readers only from a few magazine publications. Here is the FIRST BOOK EDITION by Ian Macdonald, the creator of worlds truly unique in their power and originality. Here are the resurrected dead, making up almost a third of the population Earth throws huge parties, online journalists investigate STRANGE paranormal events, and Chaga, an alien flora, changes people in its own surreal way. These are the stories of Ian MacDonald, an author who critics say has a gift for “putting real people into the most unreal worlds.” .Don't miss it!